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ISSTC 2013

Transmission Drift

Transmissions enable us to experience ideas, energy, data, sounds, events and art from distant and long ago places. In negating temporal and physical boundaries, transmissions sustain traditions between generations and broadcast across borders.

The act of transmission is simultaneously cultural, technological and political, but it is never simple, because transmission requires both senders and receivers, and meanings frequently drift between the two. Messages are distorted, drowned in noise, re-discovered and interpreted, censured, forgotten and forbidden.

Mediated and buffeted by the motions of fashion, genre, bandwidth and fidelity, electromagnetic transmissions are an ever-increasing constant. Electromagnetic frequency bands can be commercialised, purchased and sold, making the content of broadcasts answerable to financial enterprise.

How, as artists, composers, writers and scientists of sound, might we engage with the concept of transmission?

The third annual Irish Sound, Science and Technology Convocation (ISSTC) will be held August 28-29, 2013 at the Dún Laoghaire Institute of Art and Design in Dún Laoghaire.

Keynote

Transmission in Transformation

keynote by Darren Copeland

The past ten years has seen an increasing diversity of methods for transmitting sound art to an audience. The gallery exhibition, the radio broadcast, and the concert performance are but a few of the available options but these are no longer the principle cornerstones. Innovative uses of interactivity and gaming structures, as well as the increased use of networked/online contexts, site specificity, and interdisciplinary methodologies, have diversified the ways sound art is shared with audiences. This has created a demand for new approaches to presentation by presenters such as NAISA. This presentation will provide an overview of various ways that Canadian sound artists have presented their works as well as how New Adventures in Sound Art has developed various presentation contexts over the past ten years in response to this growing diversity by offering innovations of its own design.

Darren Copeland is a Canadian Sound Artist creating work for radio, performance, and installation with a focus on soundscape composition and multichannel spatialization. He has explored both abstract and referential sound materials in his fixed media compositions, and many of these works are published on the empreintes DIGITALes label. He is the Artistic Director of New Adventures in Sound Art, a year-round presenter of sound art at the Artscape Wychwood Barns in Toronto. NAISA’s programming is comprehensive and covers the entire spectrum of sound art from sound installations, to radio and concert presentations, and new emerging media.

Schedule

Wednesday, 28 August

8:30

Registration

9:00

Neil Smyth, A New Interface for Real Time Granular Synthesis Control, Darach Lennon, A Gesturally Controlled, Interactive Timbre Space for the Control of a Granular Synthesizer, Richard Graham, Brian Bridges, Loose Coupling and Gestural Structures in Special Music Performance Systems

Accommodation and Travel

Dún Laoghaire can be accessed via DART and Dublin Bus from Dublin.

Bus

Access to the Institute of Art, Design and Technology is provided by Dublin Bus 46a and 75. These routes run from Dublin to Dún Laoghaire city centre. The routes and timetables can be found here: 46a and 75.

DART/Commuter

There are regular DART/Commuter trains from Dublin (Connolly Station) to Dún Laoghaire city centre. A timetable is available on the Irish Rail website or here.